Federal Coordinating Structures

The Federal government uses a Coordinating Structure called Recovery Support Functions (RSFs). RSFs are similar to the Federal Emergency Support Functions (ESF) used for the response core capabilities.

RSFs bring together the knowledge, experience, skills, and resources of Federal departments and agencies and other supporting organizations to focus on recovery issues and needs.

RSFs are utilized to organize and request assistance, and to contribute resources and solutions for recovery.

The RSFs are organized into six functional components that support the Recovery core capabilities.

Each RSF is headed by a coordinating agency. Through the coordinating agency, supporting agencies and entities provide subject matter expertise for a particular sector or issue related to disaster recovery.

Now we will examine the six recovery RSFs, describing the structure, scalability and mission in support of recovery for each.